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OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

so when was youtube profitable?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Youtube wasn't burning billions per year and it's also pretty much the primary entity for video for the whole world which has other benefits for google. Finally Youtube can be monetized through adverts, since storage and bandwidth costs are relatively low. Whereas GenAI's compute costs aren't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't they put ads into the responses?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

If they could, they would have already.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

An ad before and after every single question you ask chatgpt? Worth a shot, I guess !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I don't think Youtube was ever profitable, to be honest.